Two

In the middle of the night I was sleeping sitting up
 When a doctor came to tell me, enough is enough
 He brought me out into the hall, I could have sworn it was haunted
 And told me something that I didn't know that I wanted
 To hear that there was nothing that I could do to save you
 The choir's gonna sing and then this thing is gonna kill you
 Something in my throat made my next words shake
 And something in the wires made the light bulbs break
 There was glass inside my feet and raining down from the ceiling
 It opened up the scars that had just finished healing
 It tore apart the canyon running down your femur
 I thought that it was beautiful, it made me a believer
 And as it opened I could hear you howling from your room
 But I hid out in the hall until the hurricane blew
 When I reappeared and tried to give you something for the pain
 Came to hating me again and just sang your refrain
 You had a new dream, it was more like a nightmare
 You were just a little kid and they cut your hair
 Then they stuck you in machines, you came so close to dying
 They should have listened, they thought that you were lying
 Daddy was an asshole, he fucked you up
 Built the gears in your head, now he greases them up
 And no one paid attention when you just stopped eating
 Eighty-seven pounds and this all bears repeating
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 Tell me when you think that we became so unhappy
 Wearing silver rings with nobody clapping
 When we moved here together, we were so disappointed
 Sleeping out of tune with our dreams disjointed
 It killed me to see you getting always rejected
 But I didn't mind the things you threw, the phones I deflected
 I didn't mind you blaming me for your mistakes
 I just held you in the door frame through all of the earthquakes
 But you packed up your clothes in that bag every night
 I would try to grab your ankles, what a pitiful sight
 But after over a year, I stopped trying to stop you
 From stomping out that door, coming back like you always do
 Well, no one's gonna fix it for us, no one can
 You say that no one's gonna listen, no one understands
 And so there's no open doors, there's no way to get through
 There's no other witnesses, just us two
 There's two people living in one small room
 From your two half-families tearing at you
 Two ways to tell the story, no one worries
 Two silver rings on our fingers in a hurry
 Two people talking inside your brain
 Two people believing that I'm the one to blame
 Two different voices coming out of your mouth
 While I'm too cold to care and too sick to shout
 You had a new dream, it was more like a nightmare
 You were just a little kid and they cut your hair
 Then they stuck you in machines, you came so close to dying
 They should have listened, they thought that you were lying
 Daddy was an asshole, he fucked you up
 Built the gears in your head, now he greases them up
 And no one paid attention when you just stopped eating
 Eighty seven pounds and this all bears repeating